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truth_n	great_a	know_v	world_n	4,002	5	4.4108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06036	Navigation improv'd: or, The art of rowing ships of all rates, in calms, with a more easy, swift, and steady motion, than oars can. Also, a description of the engine that performs it; and the author's answer to all Mr. Dummer's objections that have been made against it ... By Tho. Savery, gent.	Savery, Thomas, 1650?-1715	1698 (1698)	Wing S773; ESTC R183251	13,830	38

will but just occasion a perceivable Motion in the Ship it will be too strong for all the Men in the Ship to resist Now certainly a Ship in still Water has been found by all that have made their Remarks to be as inclinable to go a Head as a Stern and that the strength of one Man as I said before can occasion it either way and I think it absolutely impossible that a Ships Crew of as many Men as are but in the smallest Rates should not have more strength than one man I am satisfied that none but mad-men ever attempted to Row against the Wind with all their Sails spread if there were a possibility of furling them And tho' it be difficult to know exactly what way a Vessel will make in a Tydes way yet a little experience will teach us that without all doubt as exactly as Sailing or the present way of Rowing a Barge or the like Object the eighth Nevertheless when Abatements shall be made for infinite Accidents by Winds Tydes Roughness of the Sea Misunderstandings in the Working part Unevenness and Uncertainty of Mens Strenth Dislocation Frictions and other unfortunate Incumbrances such Clock-work under the weight of Ships in the Sea will ever be lyable to This Proposition in our Opinion can never by any known Sailor or other intelligent Man be thought practicable at Sea Answ In Winds and Rough Seas there is no occasion for this ENGINE for the Sails will occasion motion enough Misunderstanding in the VVorking Part may happen if a Horse in a Mill can go out this way but not else Unevenness and uncertainty in Men's Strength may as well obstruct all the work the Sailers have to do Dislocations c. my Work-man stall prevent or have nothing for his Labour And I never offer'd that this Mill-work which is call'd Clock-work should support the weight of Ships in the Sea For since I began this Design I have shewn the Draught to several Sailers as well as other Intelligent Gentlemen which I am sure in number are above two hundred but have not met with any one that could make any reasonable Objection but what I soon gave them full Satisfaction about Now I humbly offer That if my Affirmatives can be esteem'd in ballance with these Contradictions That this ENGINE may be put in Practice but on one Ship the charge of which will not exceed 70 l. the hazard of which sum is very inconsiderable weigh'd against the Advantage this Engine may be to the KING's Service When I sound the Lords of the Admiralty so much altered that from commending the Thing they would not hear one word in its defence I made bold to ask the Opinion of the greatest Engineer in the Christian World viz. Sir Martin Beckman who told me That the thing was good and would answer my Proposal and withall said that His Majesty understood those things as well as any Engineer in the World Upon which I made my humble Request to a most Noble Lord who shew'd a Draught of it to the King who being at that time very busy ordered me again to the Almiralty who never ordered me in before them but after waiting 2 or 3 Days the Door-keeper told me that my Business lay before the Navy Upon which the next Day I desired a Friend of mine to go with me to the Navy Office that he being a Man of Exttaordinary Judgment and no less Reputation might be an Evidence of what Discourse might happen But coming to the Navy Office we found the Board was rose However in the Hall I found Mr. D .... I as'd him Whether any thing was come before the Board concerning my Business No said he not since the Objections sent to the Lords of the Admiralty on which he could not but fall into an Argument I asked him some Questions in relation to his Objections and in a very little time we had a great puther about superambient Air and Water I found that my Sailer run himself fast aground as Men commonly do when out of their Knowledge This indeed made me pity him again altho' I was willing to come to the plain truth of the matter and asked him Whether or no he could not bring 150 Men to work at this ENGINE He answered Yes Then said I Will they not have as much power to give a Ship motion as 150 Men would have on Shore at a Hawser fastened to the Ship This he likewise answered in the affirmative Then said I it will do more than Oars or any thing but a Gale of Wind and fully answer my Proposals Well said he with a Smile and putting off his Hat as taking leave we are all Submission to the Lords of the Admiralty and so went off Not long after a Friend of mine met a Commissioner of the Navy and my Friend being perfectly acquainted with my Contrivance asked the Commissioner Why it was not put in use by them The Gentleman offered several Objections which were by sound reason so fully answered by my Friend that he had only this hole to creep out at Sir said he have we not a parcel of Ingenious Gentlemen at the Board Yes said my Friend I hope so or 500 l. per Annum is paid them to a fine purpose Is not Mr. D .... says the Commissioner one of them and an ingenious Man I hope so continued my Friend Then said he What have interloping People that have no concern with us to do to pretend to contrive or invent things for us So Reader here you may see what to trust to tho' you have found out an Improvement as great to Shipping as turning to Windward or the Compass unless you can sit round the Green-Table in Crutched-Friars your Invention is damned of course and yet some of these People did own to me in private That it was pity this ENGINE was not put in practice for that it would be of singular use but I find there are a sort of People in the World that will rather disserve King and Country than disoblige or run counter to one another in things of great and small importance I know not how Mr. D ... will clear his Objections and make them appear truth to the World tho' I am satisfied that he will not want for those that will assist him tho' never so contrary to reason and at present I think it behoves them so to do or honestly to recant I hope none that read this but will find Mr. D .... 's Arguments very weak to obstruct for so many Years together a thing of that Use and Service to the Nation that this would have been and truly unless Mr. D .... do publish better Reasons than he has yet done I shall think and question not but some hundreds more will be of my opimon that had he lived in the time that the Compass was found out if he could not have laid Claim to that unparralel Discovery he would have obstructed its use to the utmost of his